Shuimen She Ethnic Township

Shuimen She Ethnic Township (水门畲族乡) is a township in Xiapu County.

Shuimen Township
水门畲族乡
水门
Town
Shuimen She Ethnic Township
Population
12,773
Time zoneUTC+8
Shuimen is located in China
Shuimen
Shuimen
The position of Shuimen She Ethnic Township in PRC.

Demographics

Shuimen is located in Fujian province, in the southeastern part of the country, 1,500 km south of Beijing. Its elevation is 354 meters above sea level[1] and it has a population of12,773 people. The population consists of 5,967 females and 6,806 males. 15.0% were children under the age of 15, 73% adults aged 15–64, and 11.0% over 65.

Geography

The land around Shuimen is hilly.[lower-alpha 1] There are about 214 people per square kilometer around Shuimen.[3] The nearest larger town is Songcheng,12.0 km southwest of Shuimen. The area around Shuimen is almost covered with mixed forest.[4] In the region around Shuimen, islands are unusually common.[lower-alpha 2]

Climate

The climate is subtropical.[5] The average temperature is 17 °C. The warmest month is July, at 24 °C, and the coldest December, at 7 °C.[6] The average rainfall is 1,950 millimeters per year. The wettest month is June, with 274 millimeters of rain, and the wettest October, with 71 millimeters.[7]

Shuimen
Climate chart (explanation)
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
 
 
78
 
 
14
7
 
 
150
 
 
13
4
 
 
147
 
 
18
10
 
 
199
 
 
22
14
 
 
258
 
 
25
17
 
 
274
 
 
22
22
 
 
131
 
 
27
20
 
 
253
 
 
27
20
 
 
164
 
 
25
18
 
 
71
 
 
22
17
 
 
126
 
 
20
15
 
 
99
 
 
12
2
█ Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
█ Precipitation totals in mm
Source: [6]
Imperial conversion
JFMAMJJASOND
 
 
3.1
 
 
57
45
 
 
5.9
 
 
55
39
 
 
5.8
 
 
64
50
 
 
7.8
 
 
72
57
 
 
10
 
 
77
63
 
 
11
 
 
72
72
 
 
5.2
 
 
81
68
 
 
10
 
 
81
68
 
 
6.5
 
 
77
64
 
 
2.8
 
 
72
63
 
 
5
 
 
68
59
 
 
3.9
 
 
54
36
█ Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
█ Precipitation totals in inches

Notes
  1. Calculated from the contention of all length data (DEM 3 ") from Viewfinder Panoramas, within a 10 kilometer radius.[2] The full algorithm is available here.
  2. More than 20 kilometers away compared to the average density of the Earth, according to GeoNames.[1]

References
  1. Shuimen sa Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2012-01-18; database download sa 2017-02-07
  2. "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 2015-06-21.
  3. "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  5. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. S2CID 9654551. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  6. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  7. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 30 January 2016.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.